Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Swindon Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,620 approved · 543 refused · 291 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Lotmead Site Eastern Villages Swindon Swindon
Received 15 Oct 2025Land North And South Of East Wichel Way Wichelstowe Swindon
Received 16 Oct 2025Stratton Substation Kingsdown Road Swindon SN25 6PD
Received 15 Oct 2025Parsonage Farm Ham Road Wanborough Swindon SN4 0DF
Received 15 Oct 2025Little Thatch High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE
Received 15 Oct 2025Land At Burytown Lane Blunsdon Swindon
Received 15 Oct 2025The Nook School Lane Castle Eaton Swindon SN6 6LF
Received 16 Oct 202537 Wharf Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9LF
Received 15 Oct 202514 Pilgrim Close Ramleaze Swindon SN5 5EQ
Received 15 Oct 2025Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 16 Oct 2025Security Hut Latham Road Abbey Meads Swindon SN25 4DL
Received 17 Oct 20253 - 7 High Street Old Town Swindon SN1 3EN
Received 16 Oct 202571 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 1AA
Received 17 Oct 2025The Rails Oxon Place Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PS
Received 16 Oct 2025Cornerstone House 2 St Helens Gardens Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RD
Received 16 Oct 20259 Acacia Grove Pinehurst Swindon SN2 1RY
Received 9 Oct 2025West Farm Badbury Lane Badbury Swindon SN4 0EU
Received 16 Oct 2025Great Western Outlet Village Office 1 - 144 Kemble Drive Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2DY
Received 17 Oct 2025Great Western Outlet Village Office 1 - 144 Kemble Drive Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2DY
Received 17 Oct 2025Land Off Shrivenham Road Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon
Received 16 Oct 2025John Lewis Great Western Outlet Village 1 - 144 Kemble Drive Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2FR
Received 17 Oct 202544 Hamble Road Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3PF
Received 17 Oct 202557 Omdurman Street Gorse Hill Swindon SN2 1HA
Received 17 Oct 2025Land Off Commonhead Roundabout Purley Road Swindon SN4 0HA
Received 17 Oct 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Swindon Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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